What is recorded here

Eleven metres of chamber and passage lie crushed beneath a Galway rath, its long axis broken and its short arm hiding three lintels that still pierce the sod. The cave is not a natural hollow but a made room, bent into an L shape and sealed by collapse, with one roof stone still visible at the north end and a standing stone waiting in the east. It may have been a cellar, a shrine, a prison or a way of keeping heat and darkness together. Whatever it was, the rath above and the chamber below still belong to the same act of building.

Within the W sector of the interior of a rath (GA114-100001-). This inaccessible Man-made underground passage appears to be L-shaped (L >11.6m) in plan from the visible evidence. The long axis (L 6.4m) runs NNW-SSE and is almost completely collapsed. On roof lintel is visible at its N end. The short axis (L 5.2m; Wth 0.9m) extends from S end of W side-wall and runs ENE-WSW. Three roof lintels protrude from the sod along this section. A standing stone (GA114-100003-) is visible in the E sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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